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Quebec gov’t-funded music festival hires drag queen school teacher to be host

Updated: May 8, 2023 at 3:58 pm EST  See Comments

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SHERBROOKE, Quebec (LifeSiteNews) — A Quebec classical music festival has hired a children’s drag queen performer to host the 94th anniversary show.

The Quebec Bands and Symphony Orchestras Festival, a government-funded music festival to take place May 18-21 in Sherbrooke, has announced their decision to hire drag queen performer and elementary school teacher Sebastien Potvin, who goes by the name Barbada de Barbades, as the show’s host. 

“The message of authenticity, the message of openness, of diversity that Barbada conveys led us to identify this exceptional artist in the fall to come to certain activities of our federation,” Festival director Claudine Roussel told Radio Canada. 

“We were looking at the 1929 photo of the first Festival where there are only men. There was an evolution that took place, and this evolution has brought us to where we are today,” Roussel continued, failing to explain how a man dressing up as a woman adds diversity to the show.

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